Tom Davenport

Journalist and recording engineer.

Tom Davenport has been living on the front line of the internet since the early days of forums and BBcode. Now he contributes to a range of music and technology sites, and enjoys working on studio recording projects.

A coming wave of “installable web apps” could make HTML5 the centerpiece of modern app development—but a battle is brewing over who will decide the format that becomes the industry standard.
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Our apprentice coder, who has limited experience of computer programming, took five online courses to find out how much and how quickly he could learn. Assessing the site's multimedia c...

Apple and other digital retailers are planning to offer 24-bit audio to consumers. It should be an easy sell; recording studios use 24-bit, it's how the music was mixed, and it's how the consumers should hear it. Right? Wrong.